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Joan Laporta on Barcelona’s competitions: the priority will be the championship – international football – sports

FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta spoke to EL TIEMPO about current issues in international football, including Messi, the Qatar Cup, Piqué’s retirement and the upcoming competitions the team faces.

Laporta commented that his priority this year will be the championship, taking into account that they have been eliminated from the Champions League. “We have a team that is rebuilding itself, Xavi is working very well, he is assembling it, working on all the mechanisms to build a reference champion. What is doing very well is the League, we have spectacular numbers. The championship is the regularity match, which also says a lot about a team”.

Given this scenario, he hopes Barça win the competition. “We have had matches in which the team showed champion material and this generated great expectations.“, he assured.

Joan Laporta, president of Barcelona.

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Regarding the second consecutive elimination in the Champions League and participation in the Europa League, the president commented that the situation was somewhat mitigated with a Champions League match against Manchester United.

“There are many very strong European teams and the Europa League is an important tournament. Obviously it’s not the Champions League, but we take it sportingly. The important thing is that we’ve recovered, overcome this situation, which could have caused a collapse of the team Due to the level of play we could have gone through, but due to the circumstances of the match we didn’t get the necessary points,” he said.

Currently, The team’s priority is the championship, although other interesting competitions are on the way, such as the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, the Copa del Rey and this Europa League. Speaking of the latter, Laporta said: “We’ve never won and we’d like to fight for that too.”

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